Hunold I of Plettenberg

Hunold I von Plettenberg (* around 1190 ; † after 1267) was Marshal of Westphalia from 1256 to 1260 and 1267 .

Life

He was the son of Heidenreich I from the Westphalian knight family of Plettenberg .

Since 1256, as Marshal of Westphalia, he was deputy to the Archbishop of Cologne in his Westphalian sphere of influence. In 1256 he acted as a peace broker between the Archdiocese of Cologne and the Diocese of Paderborn . In 1258 he made sure that the Vogt von Geseke renounced some of the presumed rights of the Geseke women's monastery . In 1259 he was a witness when Count Konrad von Everstein transferred half of Osen Castle, which he had as a fief from the Diocese of Cologne, to Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden . In 1260 he was instrumental in the creation of an alliance between the Archbishop, Abbot Themmo von Corvey and Duke Albrecht von Braunschweig . In it, the contracting partners assured each other of their mutual support and promised not to build any castles in the respective border areas. Hunold was also a member of an arbitration tribunal that was supposed to settle any disputes between the partners.

His son Heidenreich II was also Marshal of the Duchy of Westphalia. Another son was Hermann I.

literature

• Johann Suibert Seibertz : The Land Marshal of Westphalia. In: General archive for the history of the Prussian state. Vol. 16, Berlin, 1830, p. 69
• Max Jansen: The ducal power of the archbishops of Cologne in Westphalia from 1180 until the end of the 14th century. Munich, 1895, pp. 135f.